Social Sciences and History / Unit 5 SSH 0435 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Mounds, Pueblos, and Cahokia
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The idea
Adena burial mounds rose in the Ohio valley from about a thousand BCE, then Hopewell. The dry Southwest farmed fully only from about two hundred CE; by nine hundred Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde stood. Maize reached the Eastern Woodlands about eight hundred, and Mississippian towns followed.
In practice
Cahokia: Berger says ten to twenty thousand people.
Where people slip
Most Mississippian towns were small chiefdoms.
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